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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
This is surely the closest to a solution we have, IMO. An alternative to the Android-iOS duopoly that involves futzing with cables and command lines is never going to go mainstream. By contrast, a vertically integrated FOSS(ish) hardware-so
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
And above all too quickly . Per kilometer, flying is roughly as polluting as driving, but nobody would think to drive across a continent to go to the beach.
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
Per person, it is reliably the single most polluting thing you will do. The reason it accounts for a "small proportion" of emissions is that most people in the world do not fly at all. Indeed, a tiny (<1% IIRC) elite of the wor
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
It is almost entirely mortgage debt backed by the collateral of housing.
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
But NFC unchecks the box "Open" since NFC access is usually a prerogative of the native wallet app of the OS, i.e. our favorite US duopoly. By contrast, any device can read or display a QR code. Hence also the success of QR paymen
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
It is very clear than you cannot. Yet.
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
It's a dark pattern, my bank does it too. Reminiscent of online stores that put the price-sorting option "High > Low" before "Low > High", as if literally anybody would ever want to do the former. This is
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
The horse's mouth seems to contradict this. The subject is Wero , not Ideal.
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
This applies more to the USA than to Europe, where "credit cards" are in fact mostly debit cards (cursory research says 71% vs 26% in America), and ordinary people tend not to be up to their necks in consumer debt. Anecdotally,
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
These factual corrections are warranted. But IMO the accusations of dog-whistling and wrongthink are unnecessary and counterproductive. Again: I agree with you on the substance! And this probably is a climate denier. But (1) that's not
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
As I understand it, they've finally been getting noticed in the last year or two. This is a super professional nonprofit media outlet that's producing an almost incredible volume of reporting on subjects of critical importance tha
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
Seems like a good use case for Unicode weather symbols.
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
>iPhones are some of the most secure devices available How do you know? We're not allowed to see the source code.
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
Taking this attitude, it's guaranteed.
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
The first thing that struck me too. Author seems oblivious that the whole subject is US-specific.
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
The comment is flippant but IMO it's also a pithy summary of an important argument in this debate. To which some of the responses are thoughtful and substantive. Tangential: I quite often slap down comments for much the same reasons yo
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
The irony surely being that the "economic value" here supposedly worth $10T is, ultimately, the very cause of their undoing (human economic activity is somewhat directly correlated with environmental destruction). Personally I&#x2
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
But the unDRYness of RSS is pretty stark. It's literally a dupe of the list page of any website. I've often been frustrated at having to maintain two versions of the exact same content, and deal with XML, when `h-entry` exists. RS
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
In most places (certainly here in Europe) the alternatives to flat-pack furniture are not cheaper, quite the opposite. Unless we're talking second-hand, which is obviously the most sustainable option. On quality, I have an apartment
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
There's something to this but it's still a slightly dodgy generalization. A random counter-example from France. If you have a one-person small business (i.e. with a registered business number and the right to invoice), all perso
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
Interesting. Since we're talking about PWAs, which are essentially apps running in the sandbox of a web client (i.e. browser), the issue you raise could presumably be fixed in an instant with a client-side setting: "Do not update
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
As you hint, the rule of thumb is that driving is (mile for mile) roughly as polluting as flying. But that's surely the point: nobody is going to drive across a continent to go the beach. The problem with flying is precisely the speed
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
>China requires showing identification to buy a long-distance train ticket. In China, ID and ticket are the same thing. You know that already. Europe and Japan (what I meant by "rail heritage") are indeed more relaxed. But even
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
The "havnt" is letting you down.
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
This is a decidedly optimistic take given what we know about social media. HN may be a rare exception. Rather than using reason to get people to surmount their "emotions" and to "think right", I'd argue we rather
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
Good for them. A few years ago I traveled from France to Thailand almost entirely by train (plus three buses and a boat). It's possible. You need time, not necessarily lots of money. Adventure is guaranteed.
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
In practice, those are two different types of train travel. The former exists only in countries with a rail heritage. Where countries are genuinely trying to replace air travel with high-speed rail (credit to them, it's much more susta
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
Sorry you're being downvoted for your harmless and jovial asides. Really, downvoting is almost always toxic IMO, I wish HN would turn it off.
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
The problem with Indian rail is the eccentric booking system. All intercity trains are booked out days or weeks in advance. This is because Indian Railways deals with excess demand not by varying the prices (yield management) but rather by
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
All true. Also: Weekend holidays involving flights are a completely unsustainable and irresponsible form of tourism given the climate crisis. Not that anyone much cares.

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